Bibliograph

Composing selves, Southern women and autobiography, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

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Composing selves, Southern women and autobiography, Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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contains biographical information

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Composing selves

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

679940468

Responsibility statement

Peggy Whitman Prenshaw

Series statement

Southern literary studies

Sub title

Southern women and autobiography

Table Of Contents

Region, genre, gender -- A feminist life narrative in a traditionalist society : Belle Kearney -- A distanced Southern girlhood : Helen Keller and Anne Walter Fearn -- Wifehood narratives : Mary Hamilton and Agnes Grinstead Anderson -- Belles, wives, and public lives, part I : Mary Craig Kimbrough Sinclair -- Belles, wives, and public lives, part II : Virginia Foster Durr, Lindy Claiborne Boggs, and Lylah Scarborough Barber -- Testimonial narratives of racial consciousness : Katharine DuPre Lumpkin and Lillian Smith -- Narratives of a writing life, part I : Ellen Glasgow and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- Narratives of a writing life, part II : Zora Neale Hurston and Bernice Kelly Harris -- Modes of autobiographical narrative : Eudora Welty, Elizabeth Spencer, and Ellen Douglas -- Coda: Reflections on a literary genre

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Southern women and autobiography

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